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Wildfires in Bakan

Bakan, Cambodia, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 32,414 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 21% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

Only fires of 2,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 61 % · 34 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 72 % · 26 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 69 % · 26 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 63 % · 25 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 67 % · 20 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 31° · 71 % · 23 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 66 % · 26 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 31° · 73 % · 19 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

32,414
hectares burned
21 %
of its area
9
fires
1,552
km²

How many times has Bakan burned?

Bakan has burned 9 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2019, 2020 and 2024. The most recent: Moung Ruessei fire, 18 April 2024, with 2,510 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 32,414 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 26,473 hectares, 17 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
9
fires
4
years with fire
32,414
cumulative ha
26,473
distinct ha

Fires larger than 2,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Cambodia →

Fires that entered Bakan

  1. 2,510 ha Moung Ruessei fire, 18 April 2024 1.6% of the municipality · 5,373 ha in total · 22 days
  2. 942 ha Kandieng fire, April 2020 0.6% of the municipality · 2,270 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 194 ha Phnum Kravanh fire, 8 February 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 5,274 ha in total · 26 days
  4. 3,974 ha Bakan fire, 17 April 2019 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 3,947 ha in total · 18 days
  5. 3,475 ha Sangkae fire, April 2019 2.2% of the municipality · 25,741 ha in total · 29 days
  6. 5,029 ha Bakan fire, 9 April 2019 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 5,006 ha in total · 29 days
  7. 11,975 ha Sangkae fire, March 2016 7.7% of the municipality · 64,197 ha in total · 70 days
  8. 2,196 ha Bakan fire, 27 February 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,181 ha in total · 15 days
  9. 2,119 ha Bakan fire, 24 February 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,106 ha in total · 9 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Open Development Mekong, Open Development Cambodia (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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